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ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2013

Direction selectivity in the visual system of the zebrafish larva.

Christoph Gebhardt, Herwig Baier, Filippo Del Bene

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Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Functional Integration of Newborn Neurons in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019
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3 authors.

Christoph GebhardtInstitut Curie, Centre de Recherche Paris, France ; CNRS UMR 3215 Paris, France ; INSERM U934 Paris, France.
Herwig Baier
Filippo Del Bene

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural circuits in the vertebrate retina extract the direction of object motion from visual scenes and convey this information to sensory brain areas, including the optic tectum. It is unclear how computational layers beyond the retina process directional inputs. Recent developmental and functional studies in the zebrafish larva, using minimally invasive optical imaging techniques, indicate that direction selectivity might be a genetically hardwired property of the zebrafish brain. Axons from specific direction-selective (DS) retinal ganglion cells appear to converge on distinct laminae in the superficial tectal neuropil where they serve as inputs to DS postsynaptic neurons of matching specificity. In addition, inhibitory recurrent circuits in the tectum might strengthen the DS response of tectal output neurons. Here we review these recent findings and discuss some controversies with a particular focus on the zebrafish tectum's role in extracting directional features from moving visual scenes.

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AnimalsHumansLarvaMotion PerceptionPhotic StimulationRetinal Ganglion CellsSuperior ColliculiVisual CortexVisual PathwaysZebrafishdirection selectivityneural circuitsoptic tectumvisual systemzebrafish

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PMID23785314
PMCPMC3685220

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